CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN

CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH LANE, MARTYR WORTHY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1350471
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH LANE, MARTYR WORTHY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1350471
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH LANE, MARTYR WORTHY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH LANE, MARTYR WORTHY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Itchen Valley
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: SU 51568 32777

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/03/2016

SU 5132 13/5

ITCHEN VALLEY, Martyr Worthy, CHURCH LANE, Church of St Swithun

(Formerly listed as Church of St Swithin)

5.12.55

GV II*

Parish church. Mid C12, C15, restored and enlarged 1865. Flint with stone dressings, nave rendered, old plain tile roof, tilehung bellcote. Norman church probably single cell with C19 apsidal chancel, organ recess to N of chancel, and to nave late C19 NW vestry and W bellcote. Chancel has plinth with offset, 3 roundheaded lancets with labels on apsidal end and one each on sides and in vestry. Nave N wall has at E C15 cinquefoiled 2-light window reworked C19, in centre is C19 single quatrefoiled light, W of it C12 N door, roundheaded of 2 orders with nook shafts, outer order has zig-zag work with billet label, and simple foliage capitals. NW C20 stepped gabled vestry with 2-light trefoiled window. S wall has at E C15 2-light cinquefoiled window reworked C19, in centre, high-up C19 cinquefoiled window with on W of it C12 S door, roundheaded of 2 orders, outer of 2 roll mouldings with diamond hatchment label, inner order plain, and nook shafts with simple foliage capitals. W window C15 2-light cinquefoiled window with label. W gable timber-frame with plaster infill, rising to support tile-hung bellcote of 1871 with all round at top trefoiled openings, and hipped roof with splayed eaves, weathervane and 3 Cl7 bells. Inside dark chancel with stained glass windows with splayed rear arches and chevron moulded architraves, below, all round, panelling and vaulted ceiling with painted ribs supported on corbels and N opening to organ recess. Chancel arch unsymmetrical of 2 orders with thick inner order on corbels to S and columns on corbels to N. In SE corner of nave C13 piscina. C15 3-centred openings to E 2-light windows to N and S, and W window. Splayed roundheaded openings to central windows. Plain roundheaded doors including C19 vestry door. W end of nave has 2 timber columns supporting bellcote. E end to E of central windows has low pitch C15 original chancel roof with C19 roof added over to continue roof line. Heavy timbered-:2 bay roof with cruck blades on corbels to E, carved corbels to W and corbels on wallplate in centre, carved bosses and moulded wallplate, rest of nave roof C16 arched brace trusses. Floor slabs: 1723 Gulielmus Evelyn, 1728/36 Charles Dales, 1731 William Moss, 1758 Richard Heath. Monuments: to S: 1745 Guliemus Moss, 1794 Charles Dale and wife, 1810 Rev. John Shorland; to N: 1730 Fennella Bail, 1801 Thomas Ogle, 1812 Mary Bennett, 1836 Maria Breens, and C18 coat-of-arms of Bishop Headley.

Listing NGR: SU5159432691

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Legacy System number:: 145654
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.